Los lunes, me levanto a las 8:00 de la mañana, me ducho y desayuno un café con leche y una tostada. A las 9:00 salo de casa, y cogo el tren. Estudio la contabilidad y mi clase comienzo a las 10:30. Como en la cafetería con mi compañeras a las 12:15. Regreso a mi casa a las 13:30. Estudio toda la tarde y cena a las 19:00.

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a short exercise in class requiring us to describe what we do on a normal day. i decided to use mondays to write on it. :)

Thought i'd practise my spanish ;)

¡Hola niñas! Este es mi primer intento de escribir un texto en español. Perdón mi errores gramaticales, por favor. Receso semana está llegando a su fin. :(  Yo dedicar mucho tiempo sobre mis deberes de espanol este semana.. leyendo mi libro y el diccionario.

Estoy muy emocionado por Yvonne.. la apertura de su tienda. ¡Hacerlo lo mejor posible!

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OMG writing that from scratch took me A HELL LOT OF EFFORT! referring to my dictionary and textbook.. but after writing this, i copied the entire text and tried to translate it to english but it's totally off! seriously, online translators suck.. haha 

OMIGOSH.. is recess week really half gone?? i haven't set out doing any of the stuff that i want to finish.. including the visit to the dentist. it's really amazing that the next available appointment for my family dentist is in MID MARCH.. agh. went for a jog this morning - getting fat!! must do something about it - and my stupid project group mates were happily stuffing me with the unhealthiest food alternatives.. imagine KFC, shilin meesua and COKE.. 

recently, derek and i dined at two pretty good japanese restaurants. about few weeks before Valentine's, we happened to drop by at Akashi. fantastic place, fantastic food. it is sushi done authentically. not any of those you see at sakae or ichiban, where the rice is more than the sushi filling. we wanted to go back there on Vday, but decided to try out Nara (奈良) at goldhill centre instead.

they had a Vday menu $168+++ per couple. the menu consisted of very good food.. puffer fish and other japanese delicacies. but i must admit that i'm not an adventurous eater, so we stuck to the plain boring dinner set menu instead. we also ordered california maki (excellent!) and a platter of sashimi to share between us. i had the tempura and eel set. the eel was simmered in a broth - very flavourful! i could just eat it with plain rice and still feel happy. the funny thing is that both the tempura prawns done at akashi and nara weren't too good but the tempura vegetables are superb!

very yummy and as for the sashimi platter.. since im not the adventurous eater, i only ate the salmon and left the rest for derek. ;)

pretty cosy place with nice ambience. we spent about $130 for two persons.

2008 has been a flurry of activities so far. just minutes into 2008, i made the quickest decision - 5 mins - to move out of hall. at that point, i wasn't sure whether my choice is correct or not, but i haven't thought much about that now either.  3 cores + spanish this sem yet i don't feel the happiness of the supposed slackness... took on a research assistant job with a marketing prof hahaha i surprise myself sometimes.

jan 18 - jay chou's world tour!

full attendance at his bday concert. we had pretty good seats and we were WOWED :)


february 2008

a very busy february for my family. whirlwind is really the word to describe it. hosted two gatherings at my place for the two extended families, customary visitings, bai-nian at derek's, farewell bbq for chelz's family (the food is very good!!) and i think cny mahjong has become a yearly affair at yvonne's place!

ok that's it for now. buenas tardes.